Peter

Steenbergen

Open-Source Advocator & Innovator | Voice AI Developer | Co-Founder of OpenVoiceOS

Home Automation

[Update] My plans for 2019

[Update] My plans for 2019

It has (again, yeah I know) been a while since my last blog post. The new year has already been here for almost a month and I even didn’t wish you all of the best for 2019. So for anyone that feels offended by that; All the best for the new year ! 2019 will […]

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[HACK] Installing HassOS on the Athom Home – PART 1

[HACK] Installing HassOS on the Athom Home – PART 1

Perhaps it is about time to give a little update on this project as well. Not that I really kicked it off, but there are some related developments behind the curtain that do relate to this project as well. Recently I gave an update about the MycroftOS project where I stated that I moved away […]

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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Some more ideas) – PART 9

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Some more ideas) – PART 9

Some Mycroft A.I. Ideas I developed over time It has been a while now since I came into contact with Mycroft A.I. Till then I have been playing around with it and started the blog post about how to create your own Personal A.I. Assistant blog series. I will shortly continue with that blog series, […]

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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing HASS) – PART 8

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing HASS) – PART 8

On to installing Home Assistant on our device. Like with the KODI installation, this is mostly information widely available on the internet, yet again included within this series for compleness sake. So let’s get started with installing the dependencies if not yet installed. (Not really sure anymore, sorry for this) [bash] sudo apt-get install python3 […]

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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing & Configuration) – PART 4

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing & Configuration) – PART 4

We have identified all the software requirements and we have ordered the goodies. Now it is time to start installing the different components and start the configuration of all different packages. After following this installation instruction we should have a basic system up and running with the latest MyCroft version using the ReSpeaker microphone array […]

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MyCroft A.I. – The Software Stack

MyCroft A.I. – The Software Stack

The MyCroft AI core stack consists of multiple software packages that are connected by the core stack. For example, every part of the voice assistant is handled by his own piece of “expertise”. In this blogpost will will give an better explanation of those different parts of this core stack. Under the hood Precise – […]

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MyCroft AI – Open Source Voice Assistant

MyCroft AI – Open Source Voice Assistant

MyCroft AI – The world’s first open source voice assistant was created and launched by a startup with the same name. The company MyCroft was set up in 2015 with the aim; “AI for everyone” open source installable on every piece of hardware from computers, to refrigerators, wearables, TVs, cars and so on. What is […]

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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (The software stack) – PART 3

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (The software stack) – PART 3

With the base system hardware decision out of the way, we need to decide which software we are going to use. In this blog post we are going to talk about which underlying OS we are going to use. Which Home Automation software package to use and for the “Heart” of the whole system, which […]

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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (How I see it) – PART 2

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (How I see it) – PART 2

In my previous post I wrote about my ideas to automate my home with an important part to be a A.I. personal assistant. There are smart speakers out there that can be used to do more, but my vission is to have it all in one device if possible.  So in this post I would […]

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